backing up logical logs to nul on windows nt

Posted in 2000

EA — Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:19:24 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

[Sorry if this issue has been discussed before, I just can't seem to find it in the archives...] Appparently the equivalent for /dev/null as an LTAPEDEV destination for logical logs on Unix is NUL on Windows NT. However, when I set LTAPEDEV to NUL in my onconfig file and try to ontape -a I get an error message saying Logbackup failed - Log backup to device 'nul' not allowed Is this not supported on the NT platform or what am I doing wrong? My environment: IDS 7.31 TC2 on Windows NT 4.0 SP4 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and Cheers E.